54 



Younr/. Similar to the immature bird, but each feather of the 

 underparts has a subapical brown spot and the margins whitish 

 tinged with ochreous. 



Hub. Tropical America from Mexico to Paraguay. 



a. tS ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico, March {A. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Forrer). 



h. Ad. sk. Cozumel I., Yucatan {G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gaunter). 



c, d. cJ $ ad. sk. Huamucbal, Guatemala, Feb. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. S.). 



e. <S ad. St. S. America. Piurchased. 



f. S ad. St. S. America. Sir E. Belcher [P.J. 

 ff. Ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



h. c? ad. st. Brazil. Lord Stuart de Roth- 



.say [P.]. 

 i. Imm. st. British Guiana. Sir R. Schomburgk 



[P.]. 

 h. (S imm. sk. Roraima, Brit. Guiana, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. Whitely). 

 l-o. (S ad., imm., Pastaza, Ecuador (C.^wc^fey). Salvin-Godman ColL 



et juv. sk. 

 p. (S ad. sk. Pebas, E. 'Peni(J. Hauxwell). 



q. cj ad. sk. Upper Ucayali, July {F. 



Bartlett). 

 Rio Parana, Sept. 



r. (S ad. sk. 



s. Skeleton. 

 t. Skeleton. 



u. Ad. St. 



V, w. 2 ad. sk. 

 X. Ad. st. 

 y. Ad. st. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 

 H. J. Elwes, Esq. 



H. Durnford, Esq, 



[P.]. 

 Zool. Soc. 



Htbeids. 



Cairina moschaia X Anas boscas. 



Jamaica. 



Santiago, Chili (Let/bold). 

 Amoy, China (Sivinhoe). 

 Interior of Madagascar. 



P. H. Gosse, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 Salvm-Godman Coll, 

 C. Darwin, Esq. [P.J, 

 Purchased. 



7. SARCIDIORNIS. 



Type. 



Sarkidiornis, Fyton, 3Ion. Anat. p. 20 (1838) S. melauonota, 



Sarcidiornis, A(/ass. Nomencl. Zool., Ind. Univ. p. 331 

 (nom. emend.) (1846). 



Range. Intertropical Regions. 



Key to ilie Species. 



a. Sides and Hanks white, tinged with grey melanonota, p. 54. 



h. Sides and flanks broadly brown-black carunculata, p. 59, 



1. Sarcidiornis melanonota. 



Asia. 



Anser melanotus, Pe7in. Ind. Zool. p. 12, pi. xi. (1760) ; A. Newt. Str, 

 Fenth. viii. p. 415 (1879). 



